Hyderabad: A local court here has convicted two persons and sentenced them to six months simple imprisonment for the offences committed under Section 66-D of IT Act-2000.
The court has also imposed a fine of Rs.10,000 each on the accused – Avvaru Laxmi Deepak, 32, of Warasiguda and Ragula Sravan Kumar, 33, of Tarnaka and in default of payment of fine amount, they shall suffer one month simple imprisonment.
A 46-year-old woman from Hyderabad was cheated by fraudsters by creating a fake email ID. She had shares in various companies in her a Demat account. Deepak promised her to help retrieve unclaimed shares from her deceased father’s account.
In 2014, Deepak convinced her to open a demat and trading account with a company. While doing this, he also created a fake email ID in her name without her knowledge or consent, despite her not knowing how to operate a phone or create an email.
Over several years, Deepak transferred her shares and misused her accounts. The complainant only found out about the fraud in 2018 and based on her complaint, the police registered a case under Section 419 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 66(c)(d) IT Act-2000 and investigated it.
During the investigation, the investigating officer recovered the email address and phone number from Google. He obtained the call detail records and found they belonged to Kumar, who was implicated as part of the fraud, as he helped in creating the fake email and the fraudulent transactions.
